{"id":50019,"date":"2023-08-18T08:06:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T12:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/news\/my-sister-squandered-our-parents-millions-then-made-me-a-very-tempting-offer\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T08:06:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T12:06:13","slug":"my-sister-squandered-our-parents-millions-then-made-me-a-very-tempting-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=50019","title":{"rendered":"My sister squandered our parents\u2019 millions, then made me a very tempting offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js-article__body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"WP-MKTW-0002413005\">\n<div class=\"snippet__body\">\n<h2><strong>Dear Quentin,<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This story may remind you of a fairy tale \u2014 a cautionary one. My financial-whiz parents earned $4 million in 1970s dollars, and retired early. They hoped we three children would go into their business. My older brother and sister did, but I chose college and graduate school, paying for most of it myself as everyone clucked that I\u2019d be poor going that route.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8230;\n      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/my-sister-squandered-our-parents-millions-then-asked-me-to-give-her-10k-but-she-also-made-me-a-tempting-offer-should-i-take-it-a4735d3f?mod=personal-finance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Quentin, This story may remind you of a fairy tale \u2014 a cautionary one. My financial-whiz parents earned $4 million in 1970s dollars, and retired early. They hoped we three children would go into their business. 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